2023-04-28 14:27:12
The German fashion designer had very close ties with the Principality, and in particular with Princess Caroline.
On March 30, the magazine Point published an article devoted to the “Last secrets of Karl Lagerfeld”, in which we learned that Princess Caroline appeared on the late stylist’s will. ” The will also stipulated that his great friend Caroline of Monaco, Princess of Hanover (…) [pourrait] choose some of the couturier’s furniture “, specified the magazine, which added that the document – established in 2016 – had been unsealed at the notary Henry Rey in Monaco.
Further proof of the special attachment that Karl Lagerfeld felt not only for the Principality, but also for the Princely Family, and in particular Princess Caroline.
The Princess of Hanover and her daughter, Charlotte Casiraghi, had also gone to the funeral of the German fashion designer, on February 22, 2019. Shortly before his death, Karl Lagerfeld had confided to the Figaro Magazine : « Caroline de Monaco is elegant, her attitude and her education mean that she doesn’t have to repeat herself every morning that she is. »
The man of letters Marc Lambron added, still in Le Figarothat Lagerfeld found Charlotte Casiraghi, muse of Chanel, “ brilliant, well above the level of the European elite, he draws the portrait of a nymph with the words of a magician à la Thomas Mann. »
A prestigious director for the Bal de la Rose
This beautiful story of friendship between Lagerfeld and the Princess of Hanover, which lasted nearly forty years, is illustrated in particular by the couturier’s active participation in the prestigious Bal de la Rose in 2013, for which Princess Caroline asked him to the event on stage. A very special edition, since that year is the 150th anniversary of the Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer, and which the couturier places under the theme “beautiful & pop”.
The collaboration is so successful that the German couturier continues to officiate at each edition. Russian constructivism, Art Deco, Cuban fever, Viennese romanticism and New York punctuated the various balls, until 2018. In 2019, the SBM decided to pay tribute to Karl Lagerfeld, who died a few weeks earlier. As the magazine reports Voguehost Stéphane Bern gave a moving speech, in memory of the creator.
Ten years at Villa La Vigie
Described by The world as ” crazy about books in a portrait published in 2006, Karl Lagerfeld had an impressive collection of works, distributed among his various residences, including that of Monaco. The couturier also lived, at the end of the 1980s, in a well-known residence in the Principality and on the Côte d’Azur: the famous Villa La Vigie.
And it is to Karl Lagerfeld that the 600 square meter Villa owes its renovation. Surrounded by fabulous Mediterranean gardens, and composed of six bedrooms, four bathrooms, two dressing rooms, a billiard room, a library and a terrace of 237 square meters, it was described by the stylist as “ the safest place in the world. » « It is impossible to approach it. No public road passes through it and you have to go through two gates to enter. There is not even an address, so no one can write to me “, had declared Lagerfeld to the magazine W.
And although he left her in the late 1990s, Karl Lagerfeld left his mark. In 2021, Charlotte Casiraghi poses for Chanel at the prestigious Villa, thus coming full circle.
A series in preparation
And if Karl Lagerfeld and Princess Caroline had a very special relationship of friendship, the designer also forged some ties with Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene and was notably on the guest list for the Royal Couple’s wedding in 2011.
A few weeks earlier, Prince Albert II, the future Princess Charlene and Karl Lagerfeld also posed side by side, on the occasion of the amfAR gala, in Cannes: an event for the benefit of the foundation created by Elizabeth Taylor, one of the major US and global foundations for funding AIDS prevention and medical research. According The Parisianno less than seven million euros had been collected that year.
Four years after his death, Karl Lagerfeld leaves an indelible mark on Monaco. Whether through the prestigious auctions still recently organized in the Principality, or thanks to the future series Kaiser Karl, whose filming should begin during the month of May in Monaco. With Alex Lutz and Daniel Brühl in the cast, this series in six episodes, broadcast on the Disney+ platform, will retrace the life of the stylist.
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